Serhii Petliuk / Ivano-Frankivsk / Lviv
New Media

The project consists of separate objects and video installations that, at first glance, have nothing in common. These works are examples of simple physical/mechanical manipulations with personal or found objects and the body. They are examples of minor external interference in the “life” of these objects, which simultaneously changes their meaning and content.

Thus, through simple actions performed on simple objects, I try to comprehend/reveal the complex mechanisms of controlling life through human consciousness, which is filled with semantic matrices formed from specific ideas and images: how, by replacing one matrix with another, the content of “life” unfolding within the framework set by the matrix can be changed in an elementary way…